The F-20A is a $75 disappointment

in my opinion the f5c has been the best us premium for quite a while not only is it a great grinder but for its BR it's also one of the best fighters available however it's not exactly a perfect plane either in fact compared to its pirs the f5c is chronically underpowered but luckily for us peasant War Thunder players at one point or another the Northrup Engineers realized that instead of putting two Leaf flowers in their fighter jet maybe it'd be a better idea if they take the engine out of an F18 and put it into the very small airframe of the F5 and just like that the F20 tiger Shar was born in Warf funder the F20 tiger shark is a brand new premium in the US tech tree and if you want to buy this jet it will s you back $70 just like every other rank seven pre uh hang on that's not at $75 this is currently the most expensive vehicle you can buy on the gun store but of course for that money you'll also get a little bit of Premium time as well as some golden eagles and actually speaking of golden eagles with today's video sponsor free G for Warf funder you two can earn golden eagles completely for free by completing simple tasks such as filling out a survey or trying out a new game and when you download the app through the first link in the description make sure to use my invitation code MDK 9k to receive 10 extra golden eagles to help you get started now of course because this plane is so expensive many many of you are probably asking yourself is it worth it honestly the only way to give you a proper answer to that question is to First explain what the F20 actually is and what it isn't I already mentioned that the F20 is essentially just an F5 but on steroids and as you can imagine this results in the F20 being an absolutely amazing jet at least on paper not only does it retain the amazing energy retention and flight performance that the F5s are known for but it's also got that way more powerful engine which results in a much much higher fruster rate ratio than any of its older brothers and perhaps more importantly this aircraft is also equipped with a more advanced set of weapons you get access to the am9 L as well as the a7f which paired with the Raider on this jet results in the F20 being a rather lethal aircraft except well not really although this may be the ultimate evolution of the F5 airframe you really shouldn't look at it as such in War Thunder and that's because this aircraft at a batttle rating of 12.0 which is very much the territory of the F-16 you know that Meme of you versus the GU she told you not to worry about well that's essentially the best way to explain the F20 versus the f-16a the only time the F20 is better than any of the f-16s is when you're accelerating from a full standstill whilst trying to take off from your Airfield the second you get airborne every F16 in the game will completely wipe the floor with the F20 not only does something like the F-16 mlu have a higher top speed more counter measures and better weapon loadouts but it also has a better frust to weight ratio at almost every speed and even if you somehow manage to get into a dunk fight in AABB which takes you below 300 km hour that really doesn't end up making a difference because the F-16 is a lot more maneuverable even at those extremely slow speeds and the thing is it's not like there is a small difference in flight performance between these two Jets no the F16 absolutely clown on the F20 it's not even a competition which is a problem for the F20 because at 12.0 there are five possible f-16s that you can run into and if you get up to here that number increases even more TDR the F20 is far removed from being the best vehicle at its battle rating although honestly I still found it to be quite a good grinder and overall getting kills was certainly possible it's not a terrible vehicle but if you already own some of the other f-16s in the game there genuinely isn't any reason to go buy this just because you want to experience this airframe just play the F-16 instead it's the same thing but better in every single way and therefore there's really only one reason to consider buying the F20 and that's because you want to use it to grind through the entirety of the US Tory which honestly is entirely Fair because the US in Warf funder has one of the strongest Air Tech trees in the entire game and because I said the F20 is still a very decent grinder that must mean it's a good purchase right h no at 75 Us doll I genuinely struggle to recommend this vehicle to anybody and that's for two major reasons first and foremost the f5c is $10 cheaper and sure that jet comes with slightly less premium time in G but really the main reason the F20 costs more is because it is a rank eight premium in theory a high ranking premium is is better for grinding than a low ranking one and that's because the higher the rank of the plane the more aircraft you can efficiently research except that's no longer true when you're talking about a tier eight premium whether or not you're buying a tier 7 jet or a tier eight jet both of them will be able to grind all the way to the top of the US Tory at least as of today so although you're spending more money to buy the F20 you don't necessarily see any benefits from that extra investment which wouldn't have to be the end of the world if the F20 was actually fun to play and although honestly it wasn't the worst jet I've ever used it also was nowhere near as fun as the f5c so should you buy the F20 well let's put it like this when somebody asks me which plane they should buy to grind out the US tech tree the F20 tiger shark won't even be an honorable mention by the f5c instead it's not only a very competitive aircraft for its own battle rating but it's also very fun to fly very good at grinding and all of that for $10 less anyway that's enough rambling about my opinion on whether or not you should buy this plane let's take a look at what it actually is like in a match in the footage you're seeing in the background I'm going to be getting two kills of the am7 F in quick succession and you'll probably notice that I'm not really doing much in order to shoot down these aircraft I'm just locking onto their airframe and then clicking a button to launch my missile the main reason I'm showing you this footage is because this is exactly what it's like to play the F20 most of the time the vast majority of the kills you'll be getting in this gen will be from you using your missiles now of course this is true for a lot of aircraft around this battle rating but the main reason I'm bringing it up for the F20 is because the amount of missiles you get in total is actually quite little again compared to something like the F-16 sure you can carry 6 A9 L's while playing this gen but really in my experience you want to be carrying The Sparrows they're just better weapons for this Matchmaker the only problem is that when you do that you can only carry two am9 L's which means you only have four missiles in total and although that's still enough to get yourself a couple of kills it's also less than the amount of missiles that you find on something like let's say the F-16 aadf anyway that's enough yapping about this plane's missiles now let's talk about its guns like I said dog fighting in this jet at this battle rating is not something you'll be doing very often so when you get kills with the guns on this plane it's usually going to be situations like this honestly I think it would have been nice if this jet had a Vulcan but for all intensive purposes the guns on this jet are good enough as is something else that's perfectly good enough about this plane are the amount of counter measures as it gets which might be a surprise to some because of course it only gets 45 countermeasure slots in total however because this plane only deploys one set of countermeasures at a time you have 45 pops of flares in total or half of that if you also decide to bring chaff so although again the F-16 a mlu does get more countermeasure deployments in total most of the time whilst playing the F20 I didn't run into any issues regarding the amount of counter measures this jet carries now I hope you'll forgive me for the rough transition but I quickly want to commentate over what's happening in the background that as you can see I'm engaging an F-15 and although the F-15 is a much better aircraft in every regard I still managed to kill this enemy now of course that's because the enemy is an absolute Bozo and for some reason decided to use none of the benefits that his airframe offers but it also goes to show that even though the f20s flight performance is objectively worse than a lot of jets you'll face that ends up not making that much of a difference within the context of aorb in other words the flight performance of this jet is good enough to capitalize on the mistakes that the enemies are making around you with that said there is one more thing I want to talk about which is this PL Matchmaker the key knite among you probably noticed that every bit of footage I've shown you so far has been of a Down tier and that's because at 12.0 and this jet gets an extremely favorable Matchmaker most of the games I played were either 110 to 120 or 113 to 123 so although this jet is technically a little bit over tiered for its own BR most of the time you still end up being one of the better plans in the match just because you got down tiered and you end up fighting stuff like the FRS and the M23 ml granted those planes are still very scary whilst you're flying this aircraft but most of the time the flight performance of this jet is then no longer as bad as it would be in a full de TDR the F20 isn't the best premium in Warf funder and because it's also $10 us more expensive than something like the f5c I struggle to recommend this jet to anybody ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for watching Remember to subscribe join my Discord server and if you 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Channel: Walv!s

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 18 2024